by Joshua Drobena | Aug 9, 2016 | News Releases
(The following is a forward from the SZS Communications Desk) NEW ORLEANS (SZS) — The 14th Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America opened yesterday evening, August 8, 2016, with the Order for the Opening of an Assembly and continued with the...
by Joshua Drobena | Oct 1, 2014 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — On September 13, 2014, Bishop Wilma Kucharek represented the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, with about 4 million members in nearly 10,000 congregations across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region, at the...
by Joshua Drobena | Nov 8, 2013 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton officially took office as Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on November 1, 2013 and began her responsibilities in the ELCA’s Churchwide Offices located in Chicago, Illinois....
by Joshua Drobena | Oct 16, 2013 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — This fall we, in the Slovak Zion Synod, are invited to join others within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in the celebration of our associations and mission in Christ’s global church. This celebration recognizes such...
by Joshua Drobena | Aug 12, 2013 | News Releases
(Republished from the ELCA News Service for availability from the SZS News Archive) CHICAGO (ELCA) — Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will gather Aug. 12-17, 2013, in assembly at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh....
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